More than 17 million users answered the question on Monday on Monday, I have to leave Twitter management? “, Posed by the billionaire. The majority asks for his departure.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
He had submitted his future to the head of Twitter to a survey on the social network, by committing to respect the choice of Internet users. The latter decided: 57.5 % of the more than 17 million participants asked for the departure of Elon Musk from the presidency of the social network, according to the results visible online, Monday, December 19.
“Should I leave Twitter management?” As the billionaire asked on the night of Sunday to Monday on the social network. “I will stick to the results of this survey,” he promised. Users were waiting on Musk Musk’s reaction to the decision he wishes to take on these results on Monday noon on Monday. /Div>
In an exchange with a Twitter user, Mr. Musk also assured that he had no designated successor. He also said that the platform was “on the fast track of bankruptcy” in a response to the computer scientist Lex Fridman , who jokingly proposed to take the reins of Twitter.
Many criticism
The survey was launched by Mr. Musk shortly after the stormy entrepreneur announced that “major political changes” on the social network would systematically be the subject of a vote.
This announcement took place following numerous criticisms made against the decision announced on Sunday Twitter to prohibit its users from publishing links to competing networks, such as Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon or Truth Social. He becomes, for example, prohibited of tweeting: “Please follow me @IDIDENTIFIANT on Instagram”, informed the platform.
These new rules have aroused the misunderstanding of many users, including Jack Dorsey, the co -founder and former boss of Twitter. “Why?”, He soberly tweeted.
@twittersupport why?
Suspended accounts
After the suspension of certain accounts under the new policy, including that of investor Paul Graham, Mr. Musk nuanced his decision. He tweeted that, instead of targeting individual tweets, policy would be limited to “suspending accounts only when the” main “objective of this account [would] promote competitors”.
@thequartering @levie Policy will be adjusted to suspending account only when that accounts * primary * purposes is… https://t.co/gljunfse0t from : //twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604615711036407809 “data-datetime =” “>
Since his acquisition by the boss of Tesla and Spacex at the end of October, for 44 billion dollars, the moderation rules put in place on Twitter by Mr. Musk, self -proclaimed defender of freedom of expression, are Far from being unanimous.
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He has, in recent days, deleted and then restored the accounts of several American journalists from CNN, New York Times and Washington Post in particular, reacting the European Union and the UN. The vice-president of the European Commission even threatened the entrepreneur with sanctions.